Hello, everyone. I am having trouble with my custom built PC. As the title mentions, when I put my PC into sleep mode and return a few hours later to power it back on, the PC boots as if it has been shut down completely. I am not greeted with the warning of "Windows did not shut down normally. Please select one of the following boot options..." The Event Viewer does not have any logs of an improper shut down along with the Performance and Reliability chart indicating something similar. Also, no mini dump file has been created. What I have tried that has been unsuccessful:

Run an elevated command prompt and typing powercfg /hibernate off

All drivers for components are up to date

Windows is up to date (I am very selective about updates that I Install, but I do have SP1 on this machine)

Enabling/Disabling devices in Device Manager to wake the computer from sleep

Enabling/Disabling WOL in BIOS

Enabling/Disabling Power Saving Features in BIOS

Asking the computer nicely to not do this anymore ;)

Here are the specs for the machine:

Win7 Home Premium 64-bit

Intel Core i5 2500k Sandy Bridge

8 GB of G.SKill Ripjaw X DDR3 RAM (4x2GB--Only 4 DIMMS on Board)

MSI P67A-GD65 Motherboard

Corsair TX850 850 watt PSU

XFX Radeon HD 5750

1 WD Raptor

1 WD 1TB Black

ASUS DRW-24B1ST Optical Drive

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card (On Board Disabled in BIOS)

TP-LINK Wireless N Adapter (On Board NIC disabled in BIOS)

I am stumped as to what this could be; however, from numerous Google searches, I have discovered quite a few accounts of this being a problem with SP1. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Mine recently did this. Are you overclocked? It seems that when I had mine overclocked above 5GHz via differential voltage, C0/C1 sleep states didn't agree with it. It would try to go to sleep, then just shut off abruptly. Overclocking using just a straight voltage input or auto voltage and simply raising the multiplier (albeit only to 4.6GHz or so) worked fine.

I'd suggest loading optimized defaults in your motherboard and seeing if it sleeps properly. At the very least, make sure sleep states/EIST are explicitly enabled. It's probably a given, but do you have the latest BIOS and motherboard drivers installed?

@Jcantrell No, I am not overclocked. I am running stock. I have also installed the latest drivers for the Motherboard and BIOS. Also, I have loaded system defaults in the BIOS.

@Michael My apologies. The PSU brand is a Corsair TX850 850 watt (I will edit my post accordingly). There are only two devices that draw power via USB: Logitech Wireless Wave Pro Keyboard and Mouse and a TP-LINK wireless adapter. I will start testing using your suggestions.

@JCantrell, LOL! Well, I have the Corsair H50 for cooling, so as soon as I get this sleep issue resolved, I'll OC :)

Yes, I just checked the ACPI settings, and it is set to S3. I'll have to take a look at EuP/ErP settings. I'm still not all too familiar with this board. I'll post my findings. Thanks again, JCantrell.

Try it either way. Also try S1 sleep state - though I don't know why either of those settings, stock, would cause a problem. Is your hard disc set to AHCI? I think it defaults to IDE and that might cause you problems too.

The hard drive is set to AHCI. I also ran across a forum stating that OS drives attached to the Marvell 6Gb/s (SATA 7-8) would cause problems too--that you should hook your OS drive into the P67 (SATA 1-2, 6Gb/s) to resolve similar sleep issues. I hooked the OS drive into the P67. I'll try that to see if it works. I'd rather leave EuP disabled for performance, but it is worth a try to see if that is the culprit.

You know what? I totally misinformed you, JCantrell. My BIOS version is 1.9. The latest version is 1.G0. Do you think that an update might solve the issue? My apologies again for overlooking that, and much thanks to you again for helping me with this.

Hey, JCantrell. I'm pretty sure that switching the OS drive to the P67 connector has fixed the problem. The computer sleeps normally now. I apologize again for misinforming you regarding the BIOS. I was looking at the wrong thing on the MSI LIve Update 5. Thank you again for all your help!

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